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therein mentioned, to order and decree, without the appearance
or healing of the defendant, that such deed shall be recorded;
and when such deed is recorded, it shall, in pursuance of such
decree, be taken and considered in all courts of law and equity
against the party making such deed, his heirs, devisees, executors
and administrators, in the same State, and to have the same
effect and consequences to all intents and purposes, as if such
deed had been recorded within the time prescribed by law; but
such deed shall not destroy, or in any manner affect the title of
any purchaser of the same thing or premises in case of a purchase
made after the date of such deed, and without notice of such
deed by the person making such after-purchase, whether such
purchase be by contract or by deed recorded agreeably to law; nor
shall such deed, though recorded as aforesaid, in any manner
affect the creditors of the party making such deed, who may
trust such party after the date of the said deed. The provisions
of this section to apply to non-residents as well as to residents,
and to infants and persons of unsound mind.

Somerville v. Trueman, 4 H. & McH 43. Moncrieff v. Goldsborough, 4 H.
& McH 281, Carroll v. Norwood, 1 H & J 180 Jones v. Jones, 2 H & J.
281. Woods v. Fulton, 4 H & J. 329. Wicks v. Chew, 4 H. & J. 547. Carroll
v. Norwood, 5 H & J 155. Pannell v. Farmers' Bank, 7 H. & J. 203. Brun-
dige v. Poor, 2 G & J 1 Sprigg v. Lyles, 2 G & J 446. Roberts v. Salisbury,
3 G & J 425. Chambers v. Chambers, 4 G & J. 420 Brooks v. Dent, 1 Md.
Ch. 523. Price v. McDonald, 1 Md. 403. Johns v. Scott, 5 Md. 81, Dyson v.
Simmons, 48 Md. 207. Stanhope v. Dodge, 52 Md 483 Hartsock v. Russell,
62 Md 619. Dodge v. Stanhope, 55 Md. 113. Brown v. Stewart, 56 Md. 421
Nally v. Long, 56 Md. 567.

1868, ch. 325.

34. Whenever any deed or bill of sale shall have been duly
signed and sealed by the parties thereto, but shall not have been
acknowledged by the said parties, or any one of them, in the
manner or form, or before the person authorized to take such act-
or acknowledgment, the circuit court for the county in which, by
law, the said deed or bill of sale ought to be or to have been
recorded, or the circuit court of Baltimore city, if the said deed
or bill of sale ought, by law to be or to have been recorded in
said city, may, upon the petition of any party to said deed or bill
of sale, or his or their assigns, or any person claiming under
them, setting forth the defects in the acknowledgment of said